There are 20 million water pumps running in India for irrigation. Half of them are running with grid power and remaining are diesel operated. All these pumps can be converted to solar power in 4 to 5 years only. Farmers can not afford to buy heavily expensive diesel. Government is not very keen to switch on to solar power. Subsidy scheme is illusive and it is given to a few hundred farmers only. It can not cover even 1% farmers. In fact, Government policy is not farmers friendly. They do not need subsidy. They need loan facility with negligible interest to purchase solar panels and inverters. Solar water pump is nothing but…. Continue reading
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Energy World Qatar
#EnergyWorldQatar
Visited the Energy World Qatar expo in Doha, Qatar going on from 18 to 28 November 2015. An awesome display of information regarding Science and Energy aimed towards the kids and people. What was interesting was while people were having a great time playing with different equipments they were also learning the science behind it. Even the parents were enjoying themselves. Qatar should seriously consider setting a building for this kind of stuff. Wonder why no Schools were invited to attend the Expo? Most of the volunteers were very active and enjoying distributing information.
It started off with a short Movie show which explained the resource crunch that the world will experience in the coming years not on one front but on 3 fronts – ENERGY, WATER and FOOD. The world will be screaming for these three as more… Continue reading
Solar Panels… pumping life back
जीवन वापस पंप करे… सोलर पैनलों
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